Something that has been missing from the Trump administration’s review of the Epstein case: considering the survivors. This week, they speak out, and we should all be listening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Something that has been missing from the Trump administration’s review of the Epstein case: considering the survivors. This week, they speak out, and we should all be listening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The president’s military occupation of the capital has escalated in recent days into something not seen since British troops marched the streets of colonial Boston.
I think someone needs to post signage or ads around Trump: Trump: Admit your crimes to the public now & expose the really bad people, or end up in Hell.
This is me every morning.
something decidedly unsurprising about how the #US collectively gasped about #ashen-faced’ US functionaries at the #AlaskaSummit, but the week the #USPresident is actively clocking out, nobody is talking about 2️⃣ attempts to #assassinate #UrsulaVonDerLeyen today… #BRICS is on the move …& the US? 🤷♀️
#Evil is #parasitic: who will become #Vance’sVP as #BRICS’ foul #Tool? #BRICS #war on the ✅ #Democracy ✅ #HumanRights ✅ #RuleOfLaw #Elon & #BRICSnations #tactics aren’t #theoretical: #Project2025 is a #GLOBAL #strategy
a #BRICS #SECURITY #SUMMIT the SAME DAY⁉️
Of course he is. Some contractors even committed suicide because they couldn't pay their bills when Trump stiffed them.
They really are afraid of progressives and people standing up for justice and equality.
The victim was identified as Keontae. He managed to escape and called his mom from a cornfield an hour away. Thankfully, he did not suffer serious physical injuries, but local leaders say the emotional scars are already heavy—mistrust, fear, and trauma. 4/4 www.wkow.com/news/top-sto...
Local news: If you watch it through, it sounds like the police are referring to this as a “fight.” This wasn’t a fight. It was a race-based attack. On August 16, 2025, a 14 YO Black teen from Platteville, Wisconsin, was attacked by white teens at a party in the town of Pulaski, Iowa County. 3/4
#BlackSky
This is a series about jerks, blowhards, racists, creeps, narcs, petty tyrants, tenured incompetents, passive–aggressive underminers, Taylorist fussbudgets, Pinkertonish snoops, pious liberal union-killers, and sneering capitalist dickheads, which is to say it is a series about bosses. From 2021:
Clever
I like it. Other ideas: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Musk, Thiel, Melania and anyone identified to work for ICE and their families.
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
Hero for the day! Thank you, Judge Sooknanan. We need heroes every day right now.
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
Evil guy
New app called ICEraid.us created by convicted J6 insurrectionist sentenced to 22 yrs in prison but pardoned by Trump, Enrique Tarrio, lets people post a picture & pin a location of an "immigrant" to remove. It pays reporters in crypto. Truly evil, let's troll it. www.instagram.com/reel/DLQ3E8V...
I got it a few weeks ago, literally one day after the senate passed the referendum. They must have mobilized as soon as Newsom even mentioned it as a possibility.
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
Looks like an AI pic with that weird thing on his forehead (probably confused by hat) and looks like his head was shaved. I don't think this is real.
"To pretend that her death deserves the same recognition as that young soldier at the gate is obscene. It is a betrayal of the oath she once swore and a desecration of the sacrifice made by so many who kept faith with theirs."
Beef prices have hit record highs this Labor Day Weekend — in part thanks to Trump's tariffs. Remember when Trump said he would bring down the cost of groceries? https://youtu.be/9EXi6xyOXSk?feature=shared
Vance is a lying POS
Mine arrived the day after the CA senate passed having a referendum (a few weeks ago now). Republicans must have mobilized this a week prior, so basically as soon as Newsom started talking about it.
Thanks for pointing this out. They'd probably refer to mob bosses these days as CEOs.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
One can hope
They should all be impeached eventually
He must be dead or unconscious and someone is posting for him. I thought he gave up the all-caps.
Lack of self-awareness and empathy are prerequisites for these guys. Weak.
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
Agree!
Here's the kind of deportation block we're not hearing enough about. This little league coach is a bonafide hero. 💙
@nytimes.com you're complicit
And use troops to intimidate voters, decreasing turnout
As Nathan explains, traditional testing of election equipment may not catch malevolent code intended to manipulate tabulation only on election day, much like how traditional emissions tests failed to detect the code that throttled emissions in Volkswagen cars only during test conditions.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
🚨🚨 JD Vance is allegedly “moving fast” behind the scenes to seize power as an aging Trump continues to brush off rumors that his health is slipping.
I don’t want to read too much into this, but several White House sources confirm that Vance was seen earlier today measuring the drapes in the Oval Office.
Never heard such an insincere "God, Forbid."
J.D. Vance once called Trump “America’s Hitler.” Now a heartbeat away from the presidency, Vance is owned by billionaires who see him as their perfect vessel. More calculating than Trump, more ruthless in ambition, he represents a deeper danger to democracy. 1nadinesmith.substack.com/p/jd-vance-a...
JD Vance on Trump sending troops into cities: "The president is not going out there forcing this on anybody." (Tell that to Los Angeles ... )
"This is authoritarian bullying in its purest form. And Vance, I think, in some ways is the worst of the bunch because Vance more than anybody knows better." @radiofreetom.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
Great analogy!
He can Epstein him.
A functioning opposition party Would be out there talking about a president vance and his impending presidency which would drive a wedge between him and the orange drag queen make up dude.
She's an opportunist who clerked for Roberts and Kavanaugh so her hands are dirty too. Her parents are opportunists too.
He was on vacation for ~100 of those days so that doesn't seem like good job training to me.
Agree. They are literally waiting in the wings for his demise, which was the plan all along. Though Trump didn't win (he/Musk stole the election), he was the only possibly believable one with his MAGA cult followers, so they used him like a Trojan horse to get through the door.
Yikes, JD Vance better hope JD Vance doesn’t hear about this!
JD Vance vacays thus far: - Cotswold - Little Miami River OH (had military raise water level so his family had “ideal kayaking conditions” - Nantucket - San Diego - Disneyland* - Greenland - Vermont ski week - Rome* (pope-killing too) - Taj Mahal* * shut down to public so he could enjoy by self
Israeli government official charged with soliciting 15-year-old girl in Las Vegas www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Definition of loser
They fired too many national park employees, so the landscaping might need some help, maybe that was Trump's major concern.
The problem of Trump being surrounded by yes-men
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The NG presence is hurting local businesses 😔
The measure declares that federal agents would be barred from directly collecting these taxes in Washington, and that certain federal laws are null and void.
The measure would direct the state to collect certain federal taxes & place them in escrow account in state treasury. The taxes would be distributed to their federal recipients or transferred to the state general fund, depending on whether the federal government is acting in a constitutional manner
Right now there's no way for states to not pay federal taxes without individuals and employers just not paying. But they could make some sort of centralized federal tax collection system. There was a similar measure in Washington in 2010 that would have done this, but never put on the ballot.
Same. Most Dems are cowards. No one wants to rock the boat,
Lying POS
Watch how Trump responds to this. Guranatee he will say nothing, which will say it all. Putin had Parubiy murdered.
🤮🤮🤮🤮. Anytime I see his face, this is how I feel. I hope he's taken care of first.
Epstein helped Trump hide his money and avoid paying taxes. Epstein also helped Ghislaine Maxwell's father hide his stolen millions. Whe is the £800 million found missing from Robert Maxwell's firms after his death? Ghislaine knows. Bet Trump does too.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
Mortgage fraud
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If Missouri Republicans mid-cycle redistrict and break the law, they will be sued. That is a promise and I don't bluff. Just ask Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Brandon just signed an executive order saying Chicago police with not collaborate with or aid federal troops if Trump sends them to Chicago. People can bash Brandon all they want, but when fascism arrives, you’ll wish you had someone covering your back. Newsom, Pritzker, and Brandon are doing it.
🧵Remember the 3.5% rule: How a small minority can change the world. 3.5% of the US population (of 340 million) is just under 12 million people. The No Kings protests brought out 5 million Americans. So even a couple of months ago, we were nearly half way to the 3.5% benchmark.
it is not hyperbole to say that the United States is not under the control or authority of the United States gov’t. Yes, assets within the Gov’t are making daily decisions, but they are either financially or programmatically (or both) under control of foreign entities, both governmental and private.
They stole the election together. They will never truly breakup because of mutually assured destruction. Musk is unhappy so he lashes out here & there with no receipts. Vance was the Tech Bros candidate & Trump the Trojan horse to get him in cuz needed his base to make hacking result believable.
We only have civil lawsuits unless states can get involved.
America needs a team of lawyers 2 go after Big Balls ect. I'm so fucking tired of our information being compromised then it's left up 2 us 2 fix it. I want lawsuits started that we can all go after them personally. Back in the Obama administration he warned Corp. ect 2 strength security they ignored
Yup, civil litigation is needed. Big Balls was also involved in stealing the election. He owns Russian domains that could have been used for the bomb threats so they could get physical access to certain machines. Trump's admin won't arrest him. They'll only silence him if it looks like he'll talk.
Many CIA operatives were killed during the first Trump term. He exposed them.
I believe it's about control, for all you state but mostly for voting. There ultimate goal is to cast votes for us this next time (any duplicates--the ones that we submit will be voided). That's why they want all the states voter rolls.
He's made more than quadruple that in new government contracts already.
Last January, a source shared evidence with me that DOGE was installing devices on govt servers to upload data to the cloud. Some hosts were FOREIGN. On Friday, a whistleblower resigned and came forward to share the same. Listen to what we found in January: www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...
Would a high MPV go along with this? I've noticed in my own long covid inflammation and in my dad who has chronic osteomyelitis that it appears to be more sensitive and a better sign of chronic inflammation than CRP.
Are these substack rankings? If it were podcasts, I'd unfortunately expect Joe Rogan in there somewhere?
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
Agree. Wish I believed in it.
If he wants to get into heaven, theoretically he needs to come clean and acknowledge and atone for all his misdeeds before he dies. That ain't happening.
This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. A Labor Day reminder of the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights that Trump and his thugs are trying to strip away.
Alfred A. Knopf is the one publishing Giuffre's memoir. They are also going to share an email she sent just 25 days before her death, expressing her wish for its release "regardless" of her circumstances. Trump & Bondi know what those "circumstances" were.
This isn’t normal, but then again, nothing they do ever is. And yes, this is fucked up, but so is almost everything else coming out of this administration. So here’s what’s going on. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States will not grant visas to Palestinian officials,
Anyone else hoping to see Kristi Noem melty face Halloween costumes this year with accompany fake dead puppy and gun attached to the shoulder? Cowboy or MAGA hat optional.
Guards went on a rampage at Alligator Alcatraz last night, beating and tear gassing detainees/hostages. Several migrants began shouting for “freedom” Guards rushed in & beat everyone with batons, fired teargas at them. Many of them bleeding. #Nazis
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Indeed they've already cost us more so far than any other administration while having less employees & benefits & will cost us billions more in wrongful termination suits, wrongful detention suits, disgusting no-bid overpriced contracts with private corporations, etc. while making us poorer & sicker
DOGE isn't fighting fraud — it's potentially exposing Americans to more of it. And now a Social Security Administration whistleblower is resigning after apparently being punished for trying to warn the public. Nothing about this fake government agency is "efficient."
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.